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Appropriately it happens that sages are
Apart from extremes
Apart from extravagance
Apart from excess。
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When it happens that tao assists men and lords
The force of the soldier is not in the world。
What takes effort is likely to return。
Briars and thorns grow within the dwelling place of the army
Behind a great military comes the seed for a faminous year。
Those who value
Achieve results yet stop
Are without venturing to strive to hold
Achieve results yet do not brag
Achieve results yet do not boast
Achieve results yet do not be arrogant
Achieve results yet without being done
Achieve results yet do not strive。
Things reach the prime and then are old？
Appropriately called not in accordance with tao
What is not in accordance with tao comes to an early end。
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In the end those with fine strategies lack the tools of fortune
They have things which are somehow disliked
So those who are present with tao are not dwelling in them。
The master…child resides in and comes to treasure the left
Using strategy； come to treasure the right
Those with strategy lack the tools of fortune
They have not the tools of the master…child
When using them in the absence of a foreseeable need
Uncaring； indifferent actions are better。
Conquer yet without embellishing
Yet those who are embellishing justify joy in slaughtering men
In the end those who are joyful in slaughteringmen
Cannot come to achieve their aspired relation with the world。
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The tao entirely lacks a name
Although its true nature is tiny
Noone in the world is able to methodize it either。
If nobles and kings are able to keep to it
The 10000 things attain self…spontaneity
The heavens and earth join with each other and it rains sweet dew
It is the command of noone but people cooperate。
Once measuring begins names are present
Names are also grasped and possessed
In the end the knowledge of stopping also follows
With knowledge of stopping lack of danger can happen。
Analogically； tao being in the world
Is just like how the streams and valleys relate to rivers and seas。
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Those who know men are wise
Those with self…knowledge are luminous
Those who conquer others possess strength
Those who conquer themselves possess force
Those with knowledge of enough are wealthy
Those who strive to go possess aspiration
Those who are not losing their place are long…lasting
Those who die yet without perishing are long…lived。
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Great tao flowing everywhere
It can be left or right
All things depend on it yet exist yet without being denied。
Outstanding service is performed without the presence of names
It clothes and cultivates the 10000 things
Yet without acting as lord。
With entireness absent of desire
One can name in relation to smallness
The 10000 things merge and blend
Yet without action as lord one can name great actions。
What is entirely without a self to act great happens
So it is able to perfect what is great。
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Take hold of the great form
The world comes toward
Comes toward without harm
Peace and stability in the extreme。
Music and handing out dainties
Passing guests stop
Things belonging with tao expressed
Its blandness is equal to its lack of flavor。
Observing lacks enough sight
Listening lacks enough hearing
Using lacks enough grasp。
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Attain the desire for inhaling
Firmly seed exhaling
Attain the desire of lessening
Firmly seed strengthening
Attain the desire of discarding
Firmly seed allowing back
Attain the desire of taking by force
Firmly seed giving away
Appropriately called subtle luminance。
Yielding conquers the firm
Lessening conquers the strong。
Fish cannot escape relating to deep water
A direction for man cannot happen with tools benefitting a nation。
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Tao； entirely absent of acting
Yet is absent of being without acting。
If nobles and kings are able to keep to it
The 10000 things attain self…transformation
Transforming yet desiring to do。
When I am able to calm the restless
An absence of naming true nature happens。
With an absence of naming true nature
In the end an absence of desire is also obtained
Without desire tranquillity happens
The world attains self…settlement。
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Higher ideal lacks ideal
Appropriately presence of the ideal happens
Lower ideal lacks a loss of ideal
Appropriately absence of the ideal happens。
Higher ideal is absent of acting yet absent of causing acting
Lower ideal is acting yet present with causing acting。
Higher humanity is acting yet absent of causing acting
Higher morality is acting yet present with causing acting
Higher propriety is acting yet the response of noone appears
Next comes grabbing the arm yet throwing it aside。
So lose tao yet back ideal
Lose ideal yet back humanity
Lose humanity yet back morality
Lose morality yet back propriety。
In the end those with propriety
Have loyal belief without warmth yet the leader of being confused
Those with knowledge of what comes next
The flower of Tao yet the origin of being fooled。
Appropriately it happens that the great husband
Dwells in what is spread thickly； not residing in what lacks warmth
Dwells in the fruit； not residing in the flower。
So detach from that； grab this。
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From old those which are with one：
Heavens with one； settling happens
Earth with one； a direction happens
Spirit with one； animation happens
Valley with one； fullness happens
The 10000 things with one； giving birth happens
Nobles and kings with one； pure action in the world happens。
These are the results：
Heavens absent of settling will； I am afraid； crack
Earth absent of direction will； I am afraid； shake
Spirit absent of animation will； I am afraid； fall asleep
Valley absent of fullness will； I am afraid； be used up
The 10000 things absent of giving birth will； I am afraid； die off
Nobles and kings absent of pure action will； I am afraid； be set back。
So it happens that the common acts as a root to the treasured
The lower acts as a base to the higher。
Appropriately it happens
That kings and nobles call themselves orphaned； widowed； unfavored。
Does it not happen that the common acts as root to the anomalous？
Are not these the same？
So incur praise absent of praising
Be without desiring to tinkle； tinkle； as if jade
Clatter； clatter； as if stone。
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That which returns is tao moving
That which lessens is tao using。
The world； the 10000 things give birth in relation to presence
Presence gives birth in relation to absence。
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